The white Jaguar with a bulky top headed toward me on the busy streets of Austin, Texas. About a block away, it stopped at a stop sign. There were no cars at the cross street, so the electric vehicle proceeded to move and rolled to...
Lyft plans to start adding autonomous vehicles (AVs) to its ridesharing platform as soon as this summer. “We recently signed agreements with partners like May Mobility, Mobileye and Marubeni to start rolling out AVs on our platform as soon as this summer,” Jeremy Bird, executive...
Travel-focused payment orchestration provider CellPoint Digital is expanding its partnership with Southwest Airlines. The new collaboration will see Southwest use CellPoint’s new cloud-native orchestration platform to provide a personalized travel experience via an “advanced Offer & Order payment solution,” the company said in a Tuesday (March 18) news release....
SnappStay officially launched its short-term rental platform Friday (March 14). The company aims to compete with other vacation rental platforms by offering a user-friendly interface, a streamlined booking process, and lower fees that enable guests to pay less and property owners to keep more of...
The hospitality industry is built on service, but the hotel experience has remained largely unchanged for decades. Guests arrive at a front desk, provide identification, hand over a credit card for pre-authorization, and receive a room key, often on a printed piece of plastic. However,...
Industry executives from Google, General Motors and Dolby Laboratories said Wednesday (March 12) that they see a future where the personal automobile becomes a rolling smartphone, able not only to entertain drivers but also to make them more productive — all while keeping them safe....
Transportation businesses rely on roadmaps, so why are they ignoring their treasury teams? Despite their role in managing cash flow, liquidity planning and risk mitigation, today’s transportation treasurers can often find themselves sidelined from strategic decision making. This oversight is not just a missed opportunity;...
A day after Delta Air Lines cut its guidance, citing lower U.S. consumer confidence, three more airlines made similar comments about the current macroeconomic environment. In presentations made Tuesday (March 11) at the J.P. Morgan Industrials Conference, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines revised their outlooks downward...
Delta Air Lines said Monday (March 10) that macro uncertainty has softened demand in the domestic market. In a press release issued ahead of the airline’s presentation at the J.P. Morgan Industrials Conference set for Tuesday (March 11), Delta said it revised its March quarter...